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68 reviewsIs egg donation a gift or a transaction?
After several years together, Elise and Peter's marriage is on the rocks. She can't get pregnant, and he can't seem to finish his dissertation. An editor with a promising publishing career, Elise decides to shelve her ambitions to pursue the baby that she believes will stabilize their shaky union. Meanwhile, Peter's mind is elsewhere, haunted by memories of his glory days as a Peace Corps worker in Morocco.
Celia, the Princeton scholarship student who answers their advertisement for an egg donor, appears to be the solution to their problems. The daughter of an unemployed mill worker from South Carolina, Celia doesn't quite fit into the elite Ivy League environment. But when Elise decides that Celia needs a mentor, the situation takes an unexpected turn.
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Review"The Gift is a moving and beautifully rendered story aboutambition, whether overt or oblique, thwarted or fulfilled. In preciseand elegant prose, Rachel Newcomb explores the ethics of egg donation,campus politics, and marital conflict. A smart, complex book by a deeply empathetic writer."
- Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
"Clear and relentless... this timely, stark, dead-on story nails two ofour biggest contemporary dilemmas and brings into question the entirearrangement of marriage in a world wrenched by torrents of ambition amid doubts about the future that turn friends and even spouses into rungson the ladder, or roadkill."
- Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats and How Men Pray
"This first novel is a tour-de-force. Beautifully written and acutely observed, The Gift brings to life the various entanglements surrounding the brave newworld of Ivy League egg donation. But the book offers more, takingreaders through the elite worlds of academia and assisted conception, as well as the hard-scrabble realities of southern poverty, the MoroccanPeace Corps, and contemporary Middle East politics. Suspenseful andcompelling, The Gift is hard to put down."
